A lot of times, if they rank us by overall tax burden, they simply take total tax revenue and divide it by total population, and it puts us up there because of the mineral taxes. |
It's allowed us to address ... a backlog of needs. |
On that basis, it looks like we're really a high tax state. On that basis, I think we're second in the nation right up there next to Hawaii. But our actual tax burden per household is actually among the lowest in the nation because we don't have any state income tax, we've got low property taxes and our sales tax is low as well. |